In a text titled for a “gift” of people known by this word, a historian who served the Zamorin and Ali Adil Shah I discussed the Siege of Chaliyam. Zainuddin Makhdoom II wrote that account of people known by this word that extolls Admiral Kunjali Marakkar’s tactics used against the Portuguese navy. A manual titled for the “victory” of people known by this word prescribed 200 men to fill each “cushoon” operating rocket artillery in Tipu Sultan’s Mysorean army. Loose groups known by this word forced out (*) Mohammad Najibullah and signed the Peshawar Accord in 1992 despite it not including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hezb-i Islami party. For 10 points, give this word used to describe American-backed insurgents who opposed Afghanistan’s communist regime. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 27% | 112.73 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | Broken Socal Scene | 88 | -5 |
| Cooper Roh | Halifax Shipping Services | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 92 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | 99 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 100 | 10 |
| Ani Perumalla | The RAND Coöperation | Floridovician | 101 | -5 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 104 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 109 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Do re mi fa serving negs | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 110 | 10 |
| Vivek Sasse | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 115 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Floridovician | The RAND Coöperation | 120 | 10 |
| Lou Leere | Big is moving to Evanston! | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | 120 | 10 |
| Corry Wang | Broken Socal Scene | BHSU X | 121 | 10 |
| Aaron Zhou | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 121 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Halifax Shipping Services | 121 | 10 |